Former PhDs
1996
Mark Scheel
Advisor: Teukolsky
Present Location
Senior Research Associate, CalTech
Thesis
Numerical Computation of Black Hole Spacetimes
Liese van Zee
Advisor: Haynes
Debra Wolkovitch
Advisor: Masters Degree -- Goldsmith
Present Location
Thesis
1995
Matthew Ashby
Advisor: Houck
Present Location
Optical & Infrared Astronomy Div., SAO
Matthew Class
Advisor: Campbell
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Sergio Gelato
Advisor: Wasserman & Chernoff
Denise Smith
Advisor: Herter
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STSCI
Nichole Vogt
Advisor: Haynes & Herter
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Dept. of Astronomy, New Mexico State Univ.
1994
Jayaram Chengalur
Advisor: Terzian
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Tracey Evans
Advisor: Haynes
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Jules Goldspiel
Advisor: Squyres
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NRL
Douglas Hamilton
Advisor: Burns
Present Location
Dept. of Astronomy, Univ. Maryland
Robert Corby Hovis
Advisor: Jarrett, Kragh, Wasserman
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David Jankowski
Advisor: Squyres
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Dong Lai
Advisor: Shapiro/Salpeter
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Professor of Astronomy, Cornell University
Scott Lundgren
Advisor: Cordes
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John Miles
Advisor: Houck
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Universities Space Research Assoc. NASA Ames Research Center
Michael Doyle Smith
Advisor: Gierasch
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NASA Goddard Space Flight Center
Nan-Yao Lu
Advisor: Salpeter
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Caltech
Samuel Megeath
Advisor: Herter
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Associate Professor, Univ. Toledo
Nicholas Stacy
Advisor: Hagfors
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1992
John Contopoulos
Advisor: Lovelace
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1991
Lars Bildsten
Advisor: Salpeter & Wasserman
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UC Santa Barbara
Michael Blaskiewicz
Advisor: Cordes
Christopher Chyba
Advisor: Sagan
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Andrew Clegg
Advisor: Cordes
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Maren Cooke
Advisor:
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Brett Isham
Advisor: Hagfors
Present Location
Thesis
Chirped Incoherent Scatter Radar Observations of the Hf-Modified Ionosphere
James Anthony Phillips
Advisor: Hagfors
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Frederic Rasio
Advisor: Shapiro & Teukolsky
Present Location
Dept. of Physics & Astronomy, Northwestern Univ.
Thesis
Hydrodynamical Calculations of Stellar Interactions
Neil Rowlands
Advisor: Houck
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Anne Verbiscer
Advisor: Vevereka
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Univ. of Virginia
1990
Wolfram Freudling
Advisor: Haynes
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Thomas Herbst
Advisor: Beckwith
Robert Kolvoord
Advisor: Burns
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Integrated Science & Tech., James Madison Univ.
Christopher Magri
Advisor: Haynes
Present Location
Associate Professor of Physics, Univ. of Maine at Farmington
Hugo Martel
Advisor: Wasserman
Present Location
Dept. de Physique, Univ. Laval, Quebec, Canada
Andrew Weir
Advisor: Gierasch
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Gerald Quinlan
Advisor: Shapiro, Salpeter, Teukolsky
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Leslie Schaffer
Advisor: Burns
Present Location
1988
Paul Graf
Advisor:
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Aerospace Solutions, LLC
Loren Petrich
Advisor: Shapiro & Teukoslky
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Alexander Pidwerbetsky
Advisor:
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Thesis
Simulation and Analysis of Wave Propagation Through Random Media
Inge Thiering
Advisor:
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John Chi Lin Wang
Advisor: Wasserman & Salpter
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Deceased
Thesis
The Transfer of Cyclotron Photons Through Neutron Star Atmospheres
1987
Michael Bicay
Advisor: Walker
Present Location
Wolfram Birkmayer
Advisor:
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Thesis
Chirped Incoherent Scatter Radar Plasma Line Measurements
Joan Schmelz
Advisor:
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Dept. of Physics, Univ. of Memphis
Michael Skrutskie
Advisor:
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Dept. of Astronomy, Univ. of Virginia
1986
Sean Colgan
Advisor:
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NASA Ames Research Center
Edvige Corbelli
Advisor: Masters Thesis
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William Deich
Advisor:
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Robert Duncan, Jr.
Advisor:
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Sr. Research Associate, Dept. of Astronomy, Univ. Texas
Paul Viscuso
Advisor:
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1985
Nathaniel Cohen
Advisor:
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Terrance Gaetz
Advisor:
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Smithsonian Astrophysical Observ.
Mark Showalter
Advisor:
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SETI Institute
John Simonetti
Advisor:
Gordon Stacey
Advisor: Harwit
Present Location
Professor of Astronomy, Cornell University
1984
Steven Wendell Lee
Advisor:
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Dept. Space Sciences, Denver Museum of Nature & Sciences
Thesis
Eolian Sediment Transport on Mars: Seasonal and Topographic Effects
W. Reed Thompson
Advisor:
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Deceased
1983
Bonnie Buratti
Advisor:
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Glenn Lyle Hoffman, Jr.
Advisor:
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Dept. of Physics, Lafayette College
1982
Barbara Burns
Advisor:
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Paul Schinder
Advisor:
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Howard Scott
Advisor:
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Daniel Stinebring
Advisor:
Bruce Thompson
Advisor: Kuckes, Houck, Lovelace
Present Location
Thesis
Crustal Electrical Conductivity Studies in the Georgia Piedmont
1981
Jay Goguen
Advisor:
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Earth & Space Science Div., JPL
Joel Macauslan
Advisor:
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Gary Melnick
Advisor:
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Optical & Infrared Division, Harvard-Smithsonian CFA
Harry Payne
Advisor:
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Thomas Roellig
Advisor:
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Astrophysics Branch, NASA Ames Research Center
Gregory Slater
Advisor:
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Steven Squyres
Advisor: Veverka
Present Location
Professor of Astronomy, Cornell University
1980
Michael Burns
Advisor:
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Linda French
Advisor:
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Professor of Physics, Illinois Wesleyan Univ.
George Helou
Advisor:
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Caltech
Robert Hohlfeld
Advisor:
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Alan Marchant
Advisor:
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John McCarthy
Advisor:
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1979
Patrick J Clark
Advisor:
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John Connerney
Advisor:
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Thesis
Deep Crustal Electrical Conductivity in the Adirondacks
William Newman
Advisor:
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Dept. Earth & Space Sciences, UC Los Angeles
1978
Richard Bogart
Advisor:
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CSSA, Stanford University
